[ci] [R-package] windows-latest CI jobs are broken: "initexmf.exe" failing

[jameslamb]

Description

Some R-package Windows CI jobs are failing with the following error.

Installing MiKTeX
initexmf.exe: The executed process did not succeed.
initexmf.exe: Data: fileName="D:\a\LightGBM\LightGBM\RLibrary\miktex\texmfs\install\miktex\bin\x64\initexmf.exe", exitCode="1"
Error: Process completed with exit code -1.

Reproducible example

I've observed this on all window-latest CI jobs. For example, from today's CI jobs on #5559.

• r-package (windows-latest, MINGW, R 3.6, cmake) (build link)
• r-package (windows-latest, MINGW, R 4.2, cmake) (build link)
• r-package (windows-latest, MINGW, R 3.6, cran) (build link)
• r-package (windows-latest, MINGW, R 4.2, cran) (build link)

R-package jobs on windows-2022 and windows-2019 are not failing.

Non-R jobs on Windows are not failing.

Environment info

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Additional Comments

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[jameslamb]

This can be fixed by just upgrading from miktextsetup 4.0 to the newest version: #5563 (comment)

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